The Merger

This scenario is set at the University of Righton — a teaching-intensive post-92 with strong widening participation, an applied/professional academic profile, a multi-campus footprint along the Lewes Road corridor, and a razor-thin financial surplus. Your partner is Southex: research-intensive, single-campus, internationally recruited, structurally stronger. You bring the civic mission, the disability-and-mature-student profile, the Academies Trust and 50% of the Righton and Southex Medical School (RSMS). They bring the research base and the balance sheet. The merger is real. The question is what it actually is.